You never know how fine water looks until you've been a long time without it." They let their horses drink first, and then, going further up the stream, drank freely of the water themselves.

They found it cold and good, and they were refreshed greatly.

There was also a belt of excellent grass, extending a hundred yards back on either side of the stream, and, unsaddling and tethering their horses, they let them graze.
Both Ned and Obed would have liked a fire, but they deemed it dangerous, and they ate their food cold.

After supper, Obed walked up the stream a little distance, examining the ground on either side of the water.

When he came back he said to Ned: "I saw animal tracks two or three hundred yards up the creek, and they were made by big animals.